“No countries are more tied, in their fates being sealed with one another, than Israel and Iran are right now.”
—His Excellency
@PahlaviReza
, the Crown Prince of Iran
@TabbyRefael
reports in this week's cover story:
"Last month’s historic and first-time visit of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to Israel meant so much to me and thousands of Iranian Jews worldwide."
New from
@TabbyRefael
:
October 7 was so horrific it threatened to ambush the Palestinian cause. So they did what people have done for centuries: They changed the subject and blamed the Jews. That always works.
Read the article by
@DavidSuissaJJ
:
@bariweiss
@benshapiro
…
Mayor Bass has remained eerily silent on remarks by Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizations and chapters expressing support for the horrifying attacks on Israelis and Americans.
Read the article:
@SoledadUrsua
@benshapiro
@NoahPollak
@EinatWilf
…
Nick Cannon said that people are “giving too much power to the ‘they’ — and then the ‘they’ turns into the Illuminati, the Zionists, the Rothschilds.” Jewish groups condemned his remarks as anti-Semitic.
@BernieSanders
@jewsforbernie
Senator Sanders, we are glad you are proud of your Jewish heritage. But we'd like an explanation why so many anti-Semites are working on your campaign.
BREAKING: CNN photo editor Mohammed Elshamy has resigned from his position at CNN due to a series of anti-Semitic tweets from 2011.
Seems openly hating Jews doesn't pay.
A Traumatized but Reborn Israel Faces Terrifying Choices | What happens on the battlefield in the coming weeks and perhaps months will help determine the next iteration of Israel:
Read the article by
@YKleinHalevi
:
@DavidSuissaJJ
@bariweiss
@benshapiro
…
Black Lives Matter (BLM) Louisville and the Louisville Community Fund posted the $100,000 bond to free the suspect behind the attempted shooting a Jewish mayoral candidate, Fox News reported.
@bandlersbanter
reports:
BREAKING: A second Chasidic man was attacked with a rock in Brooklyn, N.Y. in the span of less than a week.
No one can claim to stand against anti-Semitism and remain silent on this repeated violence against American Orthodox Jews.
JJ Editor's Note: I always get suspicious when I hear someone flaunt their pro-Israel credentials by saying, “I firmly believe in Israel’s right to exist.” Gee, thanks. I firmly believe in your right to exist, too.
“There’s a common misbelief that among Black and Brown people...that Jewish people are just like any other white race,” NFL's Zach Banner said. "We need to understand that Jewish people deal with the same amount of hate."
To kickoff
#AIPAC2020
, the speaker asked Holocaust survivors in the audience to stand.
There are many. They got a standing ovation.
Then the descendants stood – they were about half of the enormous crowd.
For more than 20 years, as executive director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer has been exposing the blatant discrimination against Israel at the United Nations and its subsidiary groups. They all wish he would go away.
Karen Lehrman Bloch reports:
“Let me announce here today, I have never ever in my life voted against a Democratic candidate for president [but] I will not vote for Bernie Sanders," said Alan Dershowitz.
“In truth, their hatred for Trump, extended to his supporters, is actually emboldening Trump and strengthening his base of support.“
@benshapiro
reports
#trump
Steven Spielberg has launched a film foundation called Jewish Story Partners to fund documentaries that “tell stories about a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories, and cultures.”
I am a disloyal Jew.
I am not loyal to a political party.
Nor will I be loyal to dictators & mad kings.
I am not loyal to taunts or tweets.
I am not loyal to hatred, to Jew-baiting, to the gloating connivings of white supremacy.
Persian and Iraqi Jews are offering support to Miss Iran,
@RealSarahIdan
, who is being stripped of her citizenship for posting a photo with Miss Israel.
Both Mizrahim and Idan share the experience of having their host country turn its back on them.
Many Jews are just as political as media members when it comes to anti-Semitism. But if you don’t oppose all types of anti-Semitism, you don’t oppose anti-Semitism, writes
@benshapiro
.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt declared that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism” in a May 1 speech, calling anti-Zionism an ideology “rooted in rage.”
@bandlersbanter
reports:
From
@RabbiShmuley
: “Israel has had many friends in the White House, from John F. Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson to Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. But Trump easily outdid them all.”
Billy Crystal and conservative political analyst Bill Kristol teamed up to encourage Jewish Americans to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"You represent American Jews, not Israelis,” said a representative of
@IfNotNowOrg
, accusing a Jewish Congressman of dual loyalty.
“No, I represent the United States,”
@RepSchneider
fired back.
Congregation Beth Israel, one of the oldest synagogues in Los Angeles was defaced with anti-Israel slogans during the protest decrying the death of George Floyd.
“Nothing will threaten the Iranian regime or the Communist Party of China like giving the people better information,” Grenell said.
@bandlersbanter
reports:
At 82, Edith, a Holocaust survivor from a small village in Transylvania, finally got bat mitzvahed.
Now she's encouraging other elderly Jewish women who've been denied the ritual to do the same.
(We're not crying, you're crying.)
The man President Donald Trump just named to speak for the Health Department accused George Soros and the Rothschild family of seeking to exploit the pandemic for control and to advance their agendas.
A spokesperson for Hamas defended their child soldier training camps, arguing that under international law, Hamas has “the right to self-determination, self-defense, and resisting the occupier by all means available, including armed resistance.”
The suspect behind the July 1 stabbing of a Chabad rabbi in Brighton, Massachusetts was allegedly violent and antisemitic toward his college roommates.
At the age of 16, he helped save the lives of 56 people in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust. He also lost his mother and four siblings to the death camps.
May his memory be a blessing.
Dear
@RashidaTlaib
&
@IlhanMN
:
I can’t count the number of progressive Jews who have come out to support you over the last few months.
But you make it impossible to stand by your side when you participate in attacks on our dignity.
✍️
@RabbiNeil
Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism. New from
@Klmarcus
:
When you teach children they need to fight racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia but completely ignore that Jews exist, it frames the fight against anti-Semitism as an opposing rather than a parallel cause.
“BDS does not recognize the right of Israel to exist. Not recognizing Israel’s right to exist is antisemitic. I strongly oppose BDS, as I’ve said countless times.” -
@AndrewYang
JJ Online: Hysteria Over Judicial Nominee Is Unfounded - "This pick has led Democrats to bouts of near-apoplexy."
@benshapiro
comments on Judge Brett Kavanaugh
#SCOTUS
The Squad don’t have many votes. If they did, so many more Democrats who would have defected and gone in for their pro-BDS legislation.
That said, there were very few people in the Democratic Party who were willing to vocally condemn BDS.
✍️
@AdelleNaz
"As the Black community mourns George Floyd, another victim of murder by American police forces, the Jewish community must not only mourn with them. We must burn with rage with them too."
The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division upheld Fordham University’s decision to not recognize Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as a student club on campus.
After weeks of
@AOC
invoking the Holocaust, her Chief of Staff is running around with a t-shirt of a person who not only sat with Adolf Hitler, but who worked to keep World War II going – aiding and abetting both the Nazis and Imperial Japan.
Last week,
@IlhanMN
tweeted an article of mine, which credited the freshman congresswoman for my newfound comfort in covering my hair with a headscarf rather than a wig, to her million-plus followers.
I felt that I had been used.
“In their view, the Palestinians are browner and poorer than the Israelis, who are whiter and richer. Israelis must be the bad guys and the oppressors because they like to divide everything into the oppressor and the oppressed." New from
@kylieoralobell
:
Associate Rabbi Andy Kahn of New York City’s Temple Emanu-El went viral after he tweeted "Jews are not an indigenous people.” But then, after public outcry, Kahn's boss rebuked his statement.
"Senator, you have done nothing to gain the trust of Israelis/Palestinians, if anything, your surrogates have pushed us further apart,"
@HenMazzig
said in response.
Antone Melton-Meaux, one of four candidates challenging Omar in the primary, has slammed Omar’s record of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel remarks. "There’s a deep sense of betrayal by her actions and displeasure with the way that she has handled herself."
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) headlined a bipartisan letter of nearly 40 members of Congress calling on the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to end their delays on investigating antisemitism on college campuses.
@bandlersbanter
reports:
Russian propaganda has painted the Ukrainian state as Nazi and fascist ever since Russian special forces first entered Ukraine in 2014. It was propaganda in 2014, it remains propaganda today. New from
@IzaTabaro
and
@eugene_finkel
:
Back in Iran, thousands of Jews flock each Purim to the northwest city of Hamadan to sit on the floor of Esther and Mordechai’s tombs — yes, their tombs — and hear the megillah. You can’t get any better than that.
I have only done one press interview about jeopardy!- for my local Jewish paper, the
@JewishJournal
. Here’s a little insight into some of my perspective about this whole Jeopardy! thing!
Dear Bernie,
After decades of virtual silence about your Jewish heritage, you now are saying that you are a proud Jew.
Voters will sense you are faking it, and Jewish voters will feel it in their kishkas, writes
@thanerosenbaum
.
There’s just so much a politician can do to make our lives better. All too often, they fail. The problem is, they never admit it.
That's why Pete Buttigieg stood out in last night's debate, writes
@DavidSuissaJJ
:
By declaring "Israeli cuisine doesn’t exist," anti-Zionists are stealing Jewish recipes and delivering them to regimes that ethnically cleansed us, writes columnist
@HenMazzig
.